The Scumbag's Regret: My Lethal Comeback

ea hit Karina the mome

n a rusty nail through her skull, flooding her mind with memories that didn't belong to her. What is this place? Am I dead?

insanity of her situation, a sharp rus

ipt. Malice flashed in Candice's eyes as she swung her arm w

Behind the monitor, director Arthur Vance's eyes widened in h

emory forged in the blood-soak

ower. Her left hand shot up with a

ac

dice's delicate wrist like a steel vice, stopping the slap dead in mid-air. T

eyes bulged in disbelief as she tried to yank her hand back, but it was like trying

rina lifte

its place was a stare as cold as a morgue slab. It was the look of someone wh

racted. Her knees gave out, trembling uncontrollably. The li

y sound was Candice's heavy, terrified

r, his hands shaking with pure adrenaline as he looked at Karina's

atching Candice's face contort in agony. A m

flicked

etto heel snapped. She crashed hard onto the dusty plywood floor

lp her up. The fall snapped Candice out of her paraly

ed, pointing a trembling finger at

same way she would look at a harmless, rotting corpse. Wi

rfect! That was a textbook reversal!" he

y usually reserved for Karina, the D-list 'vase', morphed into a stunned confusion. The disgust w

y twisted her perfectly contoured face into something ugly, but sh

stomach felt like it was digesting itself. The starvation from the war

ard the craft service area at the edge of the set. Her

wed hard. He stepped aside, and the rest of the crew fol

ogether greedily. He snapped his fingers at the c

to her feet. She glared at Karina's retreating

f this original body caught up with her. A massive wave of hypoglycemic dizziness slam

tal prop rack. The freezing metal grounded her slightly, but

oundproof doors of the

nded by a wall of bodyguards. He brought a fre

k shadow moving toward her. She tried to plant her feet, bu

h

led faintly of cold cedarwood. The impact knocked the

had just thrown herself into his arms. His perfectly sculpted brow

mmediately lunged forward. He gra

lf," Julian h

he rubbed her red forehead and looked up,